March 15, 2021 at 8:00 am
Some 260 million years ago, before the rise of dinosaurs, bone-crushing anteosaurs reigned as land’s largest predators. A new analysis of an anteosaur skull suggests that these hefty reptiles may have been relatively speedy.
“This contradicts what we knew about anteosaurs before,” says Ashley Kruger, a paleontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. Based on the reptiles’ size, which was around that of today’s hippos or rhinos, researchers had pegged the Permian Period predators as sluggish beasts that waited to ambush prey. The skull of an
Anteosaurus magnificus appears to tell a different story.
Here we were fortunate that isolation orders still allowed for outdoor adventure. It s opened a lot of people s eyes to how important parks and these greenways are that people get out and enjoy the trail systems with their health, and COVID-19 has just enforced that, Jay Greenwood told ABC 11.
Greenwood is a North Carolina state parks superintendent based in the Triangle.
He says with so many getting outdoors during the pandemic, his bosses at the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources want to seize the moment with an initiative called PATH.
Hiking enthusiast Jerry Barker of Raleigh was glad to hear about PATH which stands for Parks and Trails for Health.
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Garcia's internship will focus on utilizing social media to enhance user accessibility to the art collections at The Met.
“For me, the Met represented this opportunity to connect with individuals on a large scale, but also to highlight the incredible power that these cultural institutions have and find a way to break down these barriers or ideas of exclusivity.”